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Regarding this world.....

The Prophet Muhammad said
" The one who makes this world his focus, God will deprive him of contentment and heartfelt satisfaction. He will remain ever in greedy pursuit of wealth and unattainable desires, and he will never receive more than the share that God has ordained for him.

Whoever makes their focus the next life, God will bestow contentment and heartfelt satisfaction on them. He will also protect them from being greedy for wealth, and they will get their allotted share in this world"

(Emerick, Y. 2000"The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran in Today's English" pg. 296)

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Thoughts on Islam History


I have been listening to a book on CD- Islam by Karen Armstrong. It is really interesting and one point that really 'spoke' to me.

Muslim Fundalmentalists- the book noted that due to past oppression by colonizing western nations [britian and india] and the insistance that society become modern and government by secular, some groups protested by reinterpreting the Quran to emphasize particular aspects and completely create new factors that are supposedly "muslim": like veiling women and not allowing them to be apart of society, or believing any nation that is modern is against Islam and therefore a war enemy worthy of death.

From a socialogical standpoint, that makes sense to me. Of course I am no way approving it at all. It just speaks of people feeling they are being pushed and wanting to push back, though in a very wrong way that has the media reporting on their actions and telling the world 'this is how all muslims are'